bread and honey
Britishnoun
Etymology
Origin of bread and honey
C20: rhyming slang
Example Sentences
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“Oh, and bring me the first little one you fry. I need some bread and honey with my tea!”
From Literature
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The bakery sells homemade bread and honey cakes made from honey produced by their own bees.
From Seattle Times
All around them are the less awful children of faerie nobles, eating their bread and honey, their cakes and roasted pigeons, their elderflower jam with biscuits and cheese and the fat globes of grapes.
From Literature
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She made me sit down on the frayed silk of her eighteenth century settee while she made me a little supper, with bread and honey and coffee, and tiny yellow apples, and a boiled egg.
From Literature
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They farmed the land and sold their famous bread and honey.
From Washington Times
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